Communicating the City: Meanings, Practices, Interactions

by Giorgia Aiello (Editor), Matteo Tarantino (Editor), Kate Oakley (Editor)

Overview

How human meanings, practices and interactions produce and are produced by urban space is the focus of this timely and exciting addition to the study of urban communication. This book explores key intersections of discourse, materiality, technology, mobility, identity and inequality in acts of communication across urban and urbanizing contexts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781433130977
Publisher:	Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Publication date:	04/03/2017
Series:	Urban Communication , #4
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)

About the Author

Giorgia Aiello is an associate professor in the School of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds. She has published widely on the aesthetics of urban regeneration, urban communication research methods, and promotional communication in urban contexts.

Matteo Tarantino is a research associate at the University of Geneva and an adjunct professor at the Catholic University of Milan.

Kate Oakley is Professor of Cultural Policy in the School of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds. Her most recent books are Culture, Economy and Politics: The Case of New Labour (with David Hesmondhalgh, David Lee and Melissa Nisbett; 2015) and Cultural Policy (with David Bell; 2015).

Table of Contents

List of Figures vii

Acknowledgements ix

Foreword Susan Drucker Gary Gumpert xi

Introduction: Communicating the city between the centre and the margins Giorgia Aiello Matteo Tarantino xiii

Part 1 Imagining The City 1

Chapter 1 Journalism and the changing act of observation: Writing about cities in the British press 1880-1940 Carole O'Reilly 3

Chapter 2 Questioning the smart city: From techno-entrepreneurial to intelligence-enabling Davide Lampugnani 17

Chapter 3 Spatial materialities: Coproducing imaged/inhabited spaces Greg Dickinson Brian L Ott 31

Chapter 4 Vedic Victorians on American Gothic's landscape: Relocating "foreign" architecture and restoring the spatial figure of juxtaposition Joan Faber McAlister 47

Part 2 Making The City 63

Chapter 5 Rural spaces, urban textures: Media, leisure, and identity in a Southern China Industrial village Matteo Tarantino Chung-Tai Cheng 65

Chapter 6 Practices of location-sharing and the performances of locative identity among Italian users of Foursquare Federica Timeto 81

Chapter 7 Urban change and the mesh: An ethnography of Deptford's Open Wireless Network Paolo Cardullo 97

Chapter 8 The communication Infrastructure that supports life in the city and enables urban community change Matthew Matsaganis 113

Part 3 Sharing The City 131

Chapter 9 Interrogating phonocentrism in the "hearing" city: Exploring Deaf experiences Gill Harold 133

Chapter 10 Plague in the city: Digital media as shaming apparatus toward mainland Chinese "locusts" in Hong Kong Jonathan Corpus Ong Tony Zhiyang Lin 149

Chapter 11 Communication and knowledge creation in urban spaces: The tactics of artistic collectives in Barcelona, Berlin, and St. Petersburg Aleksandra Nenko Anisya Khokhlova Nikita Basov 165

Chapter 12 Community through multiple connectivities: Mapping communication assets in multicultural London Wallis Motta Myria Georgiou 183

Afterword: Communication and the city Kate Oakley Giorgia Aiello 201

Notes on Contributors 207

Index 211